The documentary Pelada follows two ex-college soccer players across four continents, playing pick-up soccer games wherever and whenever they can (watch the trailer below). The game's power--as discovered in games played in places from a Bolivian prison to a garbage dump in Kenya--is the intimacy it creates between strangers, and...

From helping rebuild earthquake-damaged communities to working on Meerkat-conservation efforts, volunteer vacation opportunities abound. Many packages combine a few days of volunteer assistance with sightseeing for the best of both worlds.

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When I stepped into the grand lobby of Québec's Le Château Montebello, I felt like I was entering Paul Bunyan's living room. Giant timbers braced a three-story-high...

The following story appeared in the January/February 2012 issue of AFAR Magazine.

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Alphonsus "Stan" Stanislas stretched a pole above our heads and slid it along a branch of a cacao tree. Using the blade at the end of the pole, he cut a squashlike...

Since launching AFAR magazine in 2009, we've wondered how we might create events that bring the spirit of experiential travel to life. Immediately after the fall of Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak in February, AFAR's founders Greg Sullivan and Joe Diaz traveled to the country. In the midst of post-revolution euphoria,...